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If you would like to donate money for Girl Scout cookies for the troops, contact Angela Martinez at 361-655-0626 or email mickeyangel_99@yahoo.com.

Four Victoria area Girl Scout troops have sent 74 boxes of Girl Scout cookies to an Army unit in Afghanistan.

Angela Martinez, the co-leader of the Victoria Girl Scouts, said every year the Victoria Girl Scouts send cookies to troops, but this year, the troop leaders decided they wanted to make it personal. Martinez contacted an old family friend, Edwardo Molina, 37, of Victoria, who is deployed to Afghanistan, to ask him if the girls could send cookies to his unit.

"To me, I really think it's important for the girls to learn that it's not just about selling the cookies," Martinez said. "They're giving back to the community and giving back to the troops."

Molina's wife, Monica Molina, of Victoria, said she and her husband found the gesture "really sweet."